[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #44007] test tar changes working directory in MXE-Octave ver 4.1.0+

[Philip Nienhuis]

Follow-up Comment #17, bug #44007 (project octave):

I'd say any bsdtar.exe that works in Octave (try 
'system ("bsdtar")'
)
mingw32-bsdtar was suggested by a MinGW-dev and I tried that one. Maybe it is
the only one that handles Windows-style full file paths, I don't know.

I noted that in MinGW, bsdtar doesn't have as many options as tar. But when I
renamed it to tar, it worked with unpack.m and tar.m (but the bugs in those
functions still have to be mended).


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